The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life.

Jack Herer

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Han Suyin

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

Josh Radnor

No Arab ruler will consider the peace process seriously so long as he is able to toy with the idea of achieving more by the way of violence.

Yitzhak Rabin

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

Kurt Vonnegut

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity -- the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke

Skyrocketing insurance premiums are debilitating our Nation's health care delivery system and liability insurers are either leaving the market or raising rates to excessive levels.

Jim Ryun

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.

Clifford Stoll

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

John Burroughs

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tendto persist as the new bamboozles rise.)

Carl Sagan

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Any work of art that makes us feel the artist tried too hard lacks clarity.

Clayton Whitehill